- Homework Help
- Welcome to our Spare The Air Homework Help section. We’ve featured links to educational resources for teachers and students to learn about air pollution, its causes, and solutions.
- Save Planet Polluto CD-ROM and Web Site
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Save Planet Polluto is a free, interactive CD-ROM adventure created to teach children
about air pollution and its impacts on their lives. Through a variety of challenging
games with fun, memorable characters, children will learn:
- Air quality terms
- Air Quality Index (AQI)
- Health effects of air pollution
- How to maintain a car’s engine
- How to make healthy land use and transportation
choices - How ground-level ozone and particulate matter
are formed
- Play on-line games and order your own free copy of the award-winning CD-ROM adventure.
- Smog City
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SmogCity.com is an award-winning air pollution simulator. It shows kids how transportation choices, environment factors and land use affect air pollution levels.
The player controls weather, traffic conditions, industry growth, use of consumer products, and population. The results show children how pollution increases or decreases and how health is affected depending on their choices. The power to control pollution is in your hands! - Global Warming Kids Site
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This fun site, created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, teaches kids about climate change. It features nine learning sections, plus games, animation and stuff for teachers.
Are you breathing clean air? Let K. C. Chameleon and his friends introduce you to the Air Quality Index!
Learn all about smog. Go to the Know Zone!
Use real-time, on-line air quality data
to discover the science behind the causes and effects of ground-level ozone.
It's an educational project for students grades 6-12 that includes teacher resources.
The Clean Air Primer
is an exciting interactive experience featuring information
on the science of air pollution, its causes, issues and policies, health impacts and consequences.
Students and teachers explore original geo-spatial movies, videos, photos, graphics and animation.
